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Thursday, November 11, 2010

I've been abundantly clear about my love for Ina Garten's new cookbook (probably annoyingly so). Starting this month, the Barefoot Bloggers will blog our way through How Easy is That, one recipe per week. This week the recipe was watermelon mojitos. Since one of my schticks here is that I cook seasonal foods, I wasn't too jazzed about making something with watermelon. However, I decided that the basis of the recipe was just basically a fruit puree added to the mojito base. So I decided to mix things up and go with a pomegranate mojito. I made these drinks when we had the Turkey Cranchiladas, and we had ourselves a fall fiesta!

Overall, I really liked these drinks, but I think next time I would simply muddle the mint versus adding chopped mint to the drinks. I felt like the little bits of herb were kind of distracting, and I just didn't really like the texture it added. I've made this change in my version below. I did really enjoy the pomegranate + mint combination though, and I really can't wait to make these next summer with watermelon.

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